Examples of boulevard in a Sentence
the city is celebrated for its broad, tree-lined boulevards
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The boulevard, which connected Rosedale to Kansas City, was fast becoming a prime route for Sunday drives in the new age of automobiles. .
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Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2025
On the very first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, Mayor John Lindsay took the bold step of closing New York’s grand boulevard — Fifth Ave.
—Sam Schwartz, New York Daily News, 22 July 2025
Today, only a few survive, including the Brush mansion at Cleveland State University, with markers helping visitors imagine the original boulevard.
—Michele Herrmann, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
How to Get Around With lush gardens, scenic ocean paths, and historic boulevards, Yokohama is the perfect place to stretch your legs and explore on foot.
—Kim Kay, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2025
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Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2025
On the very first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, Mayor John Lindsay took the bold step of closing New York’s grand boulevard — Fifth Ave.
—Sam Schwartz, New York Daily News, 22 July 2025
Today, only a few survive, including the Brush mansion at Cleveland State University, with markers helping visitors imagine the original boulevard.
—Michele Herrmann, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
How to Get Around With lush gardens, scenic ocean paths, and historic boulevards, Yokohama is the perfect place to stretch your legs and explore on foot.
—Kim Kay, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2025
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“Boulevard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boulevard. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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boulevard
noun
bou·le·vard
ˈbu̇l-ə-ˌvärd 
ˈbül-
: a wide avenue often having grass strips with trees along its center or sides
Etymology
from French boulevard "walkway lined with trees," derived from early Dutch bolwerc "bulwark, rampart"; so called because the earliest boulevards were at sites of razed fortifications — related to bulwark
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